High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A4e (Action for Employment) is a training company based in the United Kingdom. The company began in Sheffield in 1991 to provide redundant steelworkers with training so that they could find new jobs. They now operate in ten countries, but retain a significant presence in the UK where they work with organisations in the public sector such as the Department for Work and Pensions. In the wake of various controversies and criminal investigations, MPs Fiona Mactaggart and former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Margaret Hodge have urged the UK government to suspend contracts with A4e. On 9 March 2012 the Department for Work and Pensions announced that following fraud allegations regarding an A4e contract, it had begun an independent audit of all its commercial relationships with A4e. On 15 May 2012, Employment Minister Chris Grayling announced that contracts with A4e had been terminated, after deciding that continuing would pose `too great a risk`.